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Corbyn gave us nothing, say community leaders after talks VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS If there was any need for further proof of the gulf that lies between Jeremy Corbyn and the mainstream Jewish community, it came within moments of the end of this week’s crunch talks.

A statement released by the Board of Deputies (BOD) and Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) described the two-

hour meeting as “disappointing”, while seconds later, Corbyn interpreted that same gathering as “positive and constructive”. It’s clear the two sides (and how sad to refer to “sides” when we’re talking about the fight against racism) could not even agree on this.

There has clearly been movement on the language used by the leadership on this issue. Gone now is any sort of terminology suggesting a localised and limited issue, and seemingly embedded is the acceptance of a real problem in Labour ranks that is yet to be ade-

quately addressed. That the leadership now appears to be comfortable making clear that claims of anti-Semitism are not a smear is also a sign of progress – in words at least. For this, our community leaders undoubtedly deserve praise for forcing change in language and levels of engagement of the leader himself.

But in the absence of decisive action to back up those words, it’s little wonder the meeting has gone down like a lead balloon. A month after Jewish leaders put forward a raft of proposals for action, they are yet to receive a com-

mitment on a single one. The fact that, in the current climate, they did not even get a pledge that elected officials will be barred from sharing platforms with those suspended pending judgement, is troubling. So too that there is not yet any commitment to putting time limits on disciplinary cases – a move that would be seen to help turn Continued on page 16

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News / Labour anti-Semitism

Corbyn meeting was ‘misse The row over anti-Semitism within Labour showed no signs of abating this week as community leaders described Tuesday’s meeting with Jeremy Corbyn as “a disappointing missed opportunity” – while praising his rhetoric on the issue.

While the two mainstream Jewish organisations applauded Corbyn’s engagement during the landmark two-hour talks, they said he had failed to agree to any of the concrete actions they had previously asked for in their letter to him on 28 March.

The Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) said: “They did not agree, in the meeting, with our proposals that there

should be a fixed timetable to deal with anti-Semitism cases; that no MP should share a platform with somebody expelled or suspended for antiSemitism; that they adopt the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism with all its examples and clauses; that there should be transparent oversight of their disciplinary process.”

However, Labour insisted the request for a fixed time scale had not been rejected outright.

Rather, Jennie Formby, Labour’s new general secretary, warned there might be legal limitations, but told the Board and JLC that the party was “consulting” on whether it was possible.

According to Labour sources, the cases of Ken Livingstone and Jackie Walker were being “expedited” to conclude by the end of July.

Corbyn faced the Jewish leaders together with his adviser Seamus Milne, Formby, and Shadow Communities Secretary Andrew Gwynne.

Labour put a positive spin on the discussions and pointed to a front-page article in Tuesday’s Evening Standard, in which Corbyn had made a detailed apology for anti-Semitism in Labour.

But Jonathan Arkush, president of the Board, and Jonathan Goldstein, chief executive of the JLC, said: “Words in letters and newspaper articles will never be enough. Our sole objective from this meeting was to build trust with Mr Corbyn, but this will not be

Above: JLC’s Jonathan Goldstein, the Board’s Gillian Merron and Jonathan Arkush, and the CST’s Mark Gardner. Inset: Labour’s general secretary, Jennie Formby

possible until and unless he and the party turn their many strong words against anti-Semitism into equally strong actions, in order to bring about a deep cultural change in his supporters’ attitude to Jews.”

Corbyn responded after the talks: “When members of Jewish communities express gen-

uine anxieties, we must recognise them as we would those of any other community. Their concerns are not ‘smears’. Jews belong in the Labour Party and we are utterly committed to making it a safe and welcoming place for them… Our party will not fail our Jewish brothers and sisters.”

Speaking after the meeting, Jewish partici-

‘TOO MANY DO NOTHING’ Lord Sacks has warned that “too many good people” are failing to act against anti-Semitism and insisted the rising scourge goes against “the Britain I know and love”.

The former Chief Rabbi delivered Radio 4’s Thought for the Day days after a House of Commons debate about bigotry towards the Jewish community, in which numerous Labour MPs spoke about abuse they received because of being Jewish or fighting Jew-hate.

He said: “I’ve been doing Thought for the Day for 30 years but I never thought that

in 2018 I would still have to speak about anti-Semitism.

I was part of that generation, born after the Holocaust, who believed the nations of the world when they said: Never again.

“But this week...Several MPs spoke emotionally about the abuse they’d received because they were Jews, or more scarily, because they’d fought anti-Semitism.

“According to the Community Security Trust, antiSemitic incidents in Britain have risen to their highest level

since record keeping began in 1984, at an average of four a day.

This is not the Britain I know and love.”

Concluding his address, he said that “all it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing. Today I see too many good people doing nothing and I am ashamed.”

Students play to remember Students from Yavneh College in Borehamwood took part in a football tournament last week involving teams of peoples who have experienced collective tragedy.

The youngsters played against communities from war-torn countries such as Sudan, as well as people who had survived more recent genocides, such as Rwandans. There was also a team representing the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Organisers of the third Play2 Remember tournament at White City Tiger Turf ground in London included Football for Hope, Peace and Unity and Waging Peace, a non-governmental organisation, which say the event helps commemorate the dead and honour the living.

“It’s a powerful way to bring people together

to honour the family and friends they lost,” said Waging Peace’s Sonja Miley. “But we are also reaffirming the resilience of survivors, and the triumph of hope.”

Many of those caught up in the Grenfell fire were refugees themselves, added Maddy Crowther. “Survivors of genocide, state violence and disaster know what it is like to see their world destroyed. They understand what it is to lose loved ones, photographs of loved ones, treasured memories and a whole way of life.”

Team Yavneh comprised 13 students with an interest in genocide prevention and awareness and were joined by another team with family of those affected by the Srebrenica massacre, as well as other teams of humanitarians.

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Labour anti-Semitism / News

d opportunity’ pants — who included the Board’s chief executive Gillian Merron, herself a former Labour MP; Mark Gardner of the Community Security Trust; and Johnson — expressed their frustration that everything they put forward was met with “hiding behind process”.

The community leaders said the Labour team were well aware of Jewish disappointment and had been advised of what the Board and the JLC were going to say in their statement. Nevertheless, a second meeting has been fixed for the end of July and they were hopeful some of the steps they asked for would have been taken by then.

Arkush told Jewish News: “It has been proposed that there should be a process of evaluation to chart any progress, or lack of, concerning the requests we made.”

In the meeting, Formby set out the steps she was taking, including hiring a team of lawyers to speed up the backlog of cases. It is believed the leader asked the Board and JLC for their input on what education programmes should look like – although there was no commitment to distribute the IHRA definition with all its accompanying examples, as had been urged.

However, it is believed some examples accompanying IHRA will be included alongside other examples of problematic language, such as ‘Zio’.

Goldstein said he had invited Corbyn to join him on a visit to Israel, either solo or under the

auspices of Labour Friends of Israel. “I spoke to him about the Save a Child’s Heart charity in Holon, which operates on children from Jenin, and Jonathan told him about his son who lives in Israel. We told him there were two sides to the story. But he did not respond to the invitation.”

Arkush, who met Corbyn more than two years ago, said the Labour leader showed “much better body language” in this week’s meeting. “His language is changing. He accepted there is a problem and that when we say so, that is not a smear against him. It was a very cordial interchange.”

But Gideon Falter, of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: “The Labour Party must now hold Mr Corbyn to account and that is why we have filed a disciplinary complaint against him.

The Jewish community should not dignify the Labour Party with further meetings until [he] faces fair and transparent party discipline.”

Corbyn acknowledged in the meeting that the Board and JLC were the main representative bodies, but insisted he would engage across the community, to include Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL). The party was forced to postpone a roundtable meeting on relations with the Jewish community, after the Board, JLC and other mainstream bodies pulled out. Concerns were raised over an apparent invite to JVL, which staged a counter-demo to the Enough is Enough event.

Labour’s IHRA ‘backtrack’ Jewish leaders this week accused Jeremy Corbyn of “backtracking” on Labour’s adoption of a new definition of anti-Semitism.

Both the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC) and the Community Security Trust (CST) expressed concern about the apparent U-turn yesterday on the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition.

The Party’s former general secretary Iain McNicol had previously suggested Labour

had adopted the “full” definition, apparently including a set of working examples.

Labour sources indicated this week the party would not be adopting the full list of examples but developing a more extensive set of its own.

However JLC and CST bosses said Corbyn and Formby could not cherry-pick bits they liked.

JLC chief executive Simon Johnson said: “The full definition has been widely adopted by the CPS, the police, 132 local authorities and the Scot-

LABOUR POLITICIANS BACK JEWISH MP IN ANTI-SEMITISM HEARING Labour MPs including Luciana Berger and Jess Phillips accompanied Ruth Smeeth MP to a Labour disciplinary hearing yesterday, where she was due to give evidence. The Party heard the case against suspended Labour member Marc Wadsworth, who accused Smeeth of working with the right-wing media, which supporters labelled an anti-Semitic smear.

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CST communications director Mark Gardner said: “We made our feeling about IHRA very clear in the meeting. We said that its full adoption, with all of its clauses, was important in itself and also as a trustbuilding measure.

“It is, therefore, very important that the situation now be clarified as quickly and transparently as possible.”

NO TO BOYCOTT Walker no-show Labour’s election campaign coordinator has sought to distance the party from suggestions it may support boycotts of Israel.

Ahead of local elections on 6 May, Andrew Gwynne reacted to recent remarks made by frontbencher Kate Osamor, who suggested Labour might in future back the BDS (Boycott, Divestment

and Sanctions) movement of Israel connected to settlements.

Gwynne said he believed boycotts were “incredibly unhelpful” and the party should focus on re-engaging international efforts to promote dialogue.

Gwynne said: “The challenge for the party is to rebuild trust with the Jewish community.”

Suspended Labour member Jackie Walker will no longer share a platform with Chris Williamson MP next month.

It has been confirmed by a Labour spokesman that the former Momentum vice chair, who has twice been suspended by the party and is awaiting a hearing, is not expected to make an

appearance at a May Day event.

While Labour MPs have been told not to appear on platforms alongside those who have been expelled or suspended as a disciplinary measure, there was no such ban on appearing with people – such as Walker – suspended pending investigation.

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Board forced to perform U-turn over ‘unfair’ election nominations form The Board of Deputies last night withdrew a nominations form for its elections next month after being advised by a leading QC it was “invalid and not fair”, writes Jenni Frazer.

It came after Board chief executive Gillian Merron sent out the form to deputies earlier this week, telling them they could nominate more than one person for the presidency.

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“Nevertheless, we must be consistent in our processes, and so in line with the guidance issued when nominations opened, deputies may only nominate one candidate for president, three for vice president and one for treasurer, and not multiple candidates.”

A row erupted as United Synagogue president, Simon Hochhauser made a last-minute decision to challenge the three candidates who have already secured 20 nominations — Marie van der Zyl, Sheila Gewolb, and Edwin Shuker.

Hochhauser decided to apply after outgoing president Jonathan Arkush used Sunday’s plenary in Gibraltar to call for more deputies to stand.

Each of the original candidates had been nominated by depu-

ties whose nomination form made it clear they could only nominate one person.

But when Hochhauser said he would run, Merron sent out new forms – giving rise to the possibility his candidacy would depend on different electoral rules.

The move angered Adrian Cohen, who is running van der Zyl’s campaign, and Andrew Gilbert, who is supporting Shuker.

Cohen said that the changing of the rules on nominations would have “cast doubt on the legitimacy” of Hochhauser’s candidacy.

Gewolb said the first change of heart over the nominations process could have been seen “as a sign, and the damaging public expression, of a serious lack of confidence in the abilities of any of the candidates already standing”.

Merron denied rumours that there had been a “plan to delay the election for honorary officers”, which she said would take place Simon as planned on Hochhauser 13 May.

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Jewish News launches new interfaith awards for A nationwide search for those shaping interfaith understanding and cooperation in Britain is launched today by Jewish News, Church Times and British Muslim TV. Twenty-one 21st century leaders will identify and celebrate seven Christians, Muslims and Jews under the age of 35 who are leading projects, running organisations and creating dialogues to bring followers of the three Abrahamic faiths closer together.

It’s believed to be the first time anywhere in the world that media outlets catering to different faiths communities have worked together in such a way. They will work in partnership with Coexist House, which seeks to boost public understanding of the perspectives and practises of the world’s religions.

“The narrative of faiths in constant conflict is all too dominant today — often perpetuated by the media,” a spokesman for the project said. “Through this unique collaboration, we look forward to shining a light on those demonstrating in their work and their lives how their faith makes them more open, not less, to friendships and social action across cultural boundaries,” “With a combined audience of hundreds

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guished panel of judges from the three communities will be joined by Sir Bernard Rix and Michael Wakelin of Coexist House and Jonathan Hellewell, communities advisor to Theresa May, to select the final list.

Those featured will also be profiled by the three media outlets and invited to a reception

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The project will conclude around Interfaith Week and, fittingly, close to the 70th birthday of Prince Charles, who has made furthering interfaith relations a priority.

The Jewish News said: “For several years we have been looking to work with media outlets from other faiths on such a joint project and we are delighted that Church Times, British Muslim TV and Coexist have agreed to join us in this hugely worthwhile and rewarding initiative.

“It’s a great honour to be working hand in hand with fellow journalists from other faith traditions to celebrate our common values and emphasise that there is so much more that unites us than divides.”  You can nominate now at 21421.co.uk

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News / School places / Royal baby / Property show

School waiting lists drop Parents hoping to send their children to one of the big state-aided Jewish secondary schools breathed a sigh of relief after it was revealed that there has been a serious drop in waiting list places, writes Jenni Frazer.

Rabbi David Meyer, executive director of Partnerships for Jewish Schools (PaJeS), told Jewish News: “Currently there is a 30 percent drop in the numbers on the waiting list in comparison to last year.

“There are no doubt a number of factors feeding in to this, the most significant of which is the additional places offered across the schools.

“The JPR [Institute for Jewish Policy Research] report that PaJeS commissioned to look at future provision has been completed, and shows that the number of applications for secondary places should remain at a similar level in future years.”

PaJeS is heavily involved, along with the United Synagogue and JPR, in forward planningforJewishschools.JPRwillrelease a new study, commissioned by PaJeS, in a few weeks’ time, which builds on the data in its March 2017 survey. Much of the forecasting depends on the take-up in Jewish primary education.

Rabbi Meyer said that currently “it is very early in the process and we don’t as yet have conclusive data regarding primary schools and places, as the first round of offers has only just gone out. However, the

A new report shows there has been a 30 percent reduction in waiting list numbers

initial indications are that there are enough school places across north-west London to meet the demand”.

But he acknowledged that there “are pressures on certain schools, due to factors including location and religious ethos”.

The new study, Rabbi Meyer said, would help with planning for the next five years. It could already be seen, however, that there was a definite increase in the numbers of religious children applying for primary school places, and a slight drop in the numbers of more secular applicants.

Much depended on geographical location, with huge pressure on schools in Borehamwood.

In Hertfordshire alone, there has been a rise in applications for places at Yavneh Primary, from 170 in 2017 to 191 this year; for places at Hertsmere Jewish Day School, from 153 to 184 – both Yavneh and Hertsmere have 60 school places each; and 73 children’s names have been put down for the 30 places at Clore Shalom, a rise from last year’s 38 applications.

To avoid a situation where children who have had Jewish primary school education cannot find a place at a Jewish secondary school, the secondary schools are implementing a “bulge” programme and are increasing the number of places on offer.

Mazeltov, Will & Kate!

The Jewish community has congratulated the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge upon the birth of their third child on Monday.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Reform Judaism’s Senior Rabbi Laura JannerKlausner and Liberal Judaism’s director of strategy and partnerships Rabbi Charley Baginsky were among those to send their best wishes.

Mirvis tweeted: “We wish their Royal Highnesses many years of joy from their

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new son.”

Janner-Klausner and Baginsky said: “The birth of a child reminds us of the miracle of life and the many opportunities for optimism.”

PROPERTIES ON SHOW An Israel property show is to be held at Finchley Synagogue on Sunday with companies hoping to help London’s Jewish community invest in Israeli homes.

The Israeli Real Estate Show organised by Bayit B’Israel will feature estate agents and property companies offering holiday homes as well as accommodation designed for a more permanent move, with representatives from related services such as banks and law firms.

Bayit B’Israel chief executives Serge Haddad and Emanuel Vatari said: “The events allow buyers to meet face to face with representatives. They get the information they need and cultivate a relationship with various professionals.”

Among areas being sold into are those “designed for the Orthodox community and foreign residents”, while others include luxury developments in north Tel Aviv.

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News / Racist jailed / Anti-Semitic posters / Children’s Shoah memorial

‘Nazi’ sentenced to three years A self-confessed Nazi who called for the genocide of Jewish people has been jailed for three years.

The 22-year-old man from Lancashire, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of two counts of stirring up racial hatred following a trial in January.

Preston Crown Court heard how he described Jews as parasites to be “eradicated” at a gathering of far-right extremists, the Yorkshire Forum for Nationalists, held in February 2016.

During the speech, he said: “You can call me a Nazi. You can call me a fascist. That’s what I am.”

He ended by saying: “We need to start focusing on the real enemy.

The real enemy is the Jew.” He also committed the offences

The 22-year-old was sentenced at Preston Crown Court

during a rally by a group named the North West Infidels on Blackpool Promenade the following month.

When police arrested him at his home, they found material, including a poster that claimed “the Jewish master race” sought to turn

99 percent of the population into slaves, which the judge said was “as shocking and inflammatory as it is misguided”.

During a sentencing hearing last week, he nodded when Judge Robert Altham questioned

whether he still held the same views.

Sentencing, Judge Altham said: “The intent is very clear. He is trying to encourage a movement towards genocide. These are not idle comments said in the heat of the moment but intended to mobilise others.”

Judge Altham described an apology submitted in mitigation as “meaningless” at best, “dishonest” at worst, saying: “He seeks to raise street armies, perpetrate violence against Jewish people and ultimately bring about genocide.”

The man, who said Britain “took the wrong side” during the war, was given 18 months in prison for each offence, to be served consecutively.

Police probe posters at Bournemouth Uni Jewish students have described a spate of anti-Semitic posters at Bournemouth University as “appalling”, after police said they were investigating.

Some posters suggested Jewish links to conspiracy theories about 9/11 and a plot to create a ‘Greater Israel,’ while others, found in a bathroom at the Talbot Campus, show Iranian

and Syrian leaders against the Star of David.

Dorset Police said inquiries were ongoing, but that no arrests had been made.

A university spokesman said: “We remind staff and students of BU’s commitment to report hate crimes.

We take all incidences of abuse seri-

ously. Anyone breaching these rules will be subject to disciplinary proceedings.”

Joseph Serfaty of Bournemouth University’s Jewish society said the posters were placed “to clearly intimidate and troll Jewish students by perpetuating old-school Nazi-style antiSemitic conspiracy theories”.

SHULS SUPPORT MEMORIAL DRIVE More than 100 volunteers from Stanmore and Canons Park Synagogue have met to count 200,000 buttons collected for a project to create a memorial to the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust.

The gargantuan task was triggered by a wave of support for the project from schools all over the country, the idea itself originating from a Lake District student who was asked to come up with a meaningful way to mark the mass murder.

The student who started the B’s Buttons initiative said she had been inspired by a visit from survivor Arek Hersh, one of 732 displaced children, known collectively as “The Boys”, who were resettled in the UK in 1945. He and 299 others were rehomed in the Lake District.

The student came up with the idea of collecting 1.5 million buttons to reflect the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust, launching the project in September.

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News / Local Elections 2018

The battle for Barnet Barnet Labour Hale ward candidates Ernest Ambe, Rachel Barker and Liron Velleman, supported by deselected former Tory councillor Sury Khatri, second left

Polling earlier this year for the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University pointed to Barnet going red, part of an expected huge swing to Labour in the capital at next week’s local elections, writes Marc Shoffman.

But as polling day approaches, the anti-Semitism scandal engulfing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour continues to loom large amid speculation about its possible impact on one of the most marginal boroughs in the country, where 15 percent of the

electorate are Jewish.

The last local elections in 2014 left the Tories with a tiny majority on Barnet Council before Conservative councillor Sury Khatri resigned in March to become an independent, while backing Labour.

This left the Tories on 31 seats, Labour on 30, the Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Democrats on one.

Among those hoping Labour will take power

for the first time since 2002, when they were in coalition with the Lib Dems, is Anne Clarke, who is attempting to gain a seat for Labour in the Childs Hill ward, where 17 percent of the local population is Jewish.

She grew up in Chicago among Jewish families, so is familiar with the needs of the community and says she is sad to hear the concerns about anti-Semitism when visiting households.

“Fundamentally, Jewish values are Labour values, and it hurts me that there are Jews who don’t feel comfortable voting Labour,” Clarke said.

“I can only assure people that Barnet Labour has long-standing and deep connections with local Jewish communities.”

Explaining why voters should back her in Childs Hill – which encompasses areas such as Brent Cross, Golders Hill Park and Finchley Road – Clarke said Childs Hill needs a “strong, local advocate” ahead of the Brent Cross/Cricklewood regeneration that is set to expand Brent Cross shopping centre, bring more homes and jobs to the area and create a new Thameslink station.

She said: “Our current Tory councillors have made a mockery of our community, they threw caution to the wind by taking the Childs Hill Library out of the hands of professionals and replacing professional library staff with security

guards at Golders Green Library.

“The major regeneration scheme is an incredible opportunity for Childs Hill to become an even better place to live. I don’t see any creativity or energy from our current councillors over this project.

“They often shy away from public consultation meetings about the regeneration.

The council seems to have handed the whole project over to developers, come what may.”

The Conservatives in Barnet have two councillors representing Childs Hill, Shimon Ryde and Peter Zinkin, both of whom are standing again.

Ryde says the Conservatives have maintained election pledges to keep libraries in the borough open, and insisted he has been on several panels that have heard views from residents on local regeneration.

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Ryde, a Beis Yaacov school governor, says he and fellow Tory councillors are committed to keeping weekly bin collections, investing in repairing and cleaning roads and pavements, as well as holding council tax and supporting housing in the Brent Cross development.

He adds: “Now more than ever, having a strong Jewish voice locally and nationally, is vital so that issues important to the Jewish community can be heard by senior politicians.

“Fear of terrorism has been a constant worry in the Jewish community but recently the rise of anti-Semitism and the fashionable rise in anti-Israel sentiment as a cover for antiSemitism is of real concern.”

The ward’s third current councillor is Jack Cohen, who has represented the Childs Hill ward since 1986 and was Mayor of Barnet in 2000.

Cohen – who is standing again for the Liberal Democrats alongside Sachin Patel and Susette Palmer – said the key concerns in the ward are the reduction in library opening hours, potholes, and general highways maintenance, as well as speeding traffic and the lack of enforcement of poor houses in multiple occupation and beds in sheds.

Cohen said: “I hope all voters will take my years of campaigning and fighting for a better deal for residents in to account.

“I am well known for working with local Jewish groups to set up new schools, often in the face of opposition by the council.”

A few miles back towards the A41 and the infamous Apex Corner lies the Hale ward, with a Jewish population of 15 percent.

It is where Elliot Simberg missed out on a seat in 2014, but this time is hoping to help the party maintain its majority in the area.

Simberg is a school governor, sits on the police community action panel and is a trustee of the Jewish Youth Fund.

Outlining the key issues for the ward, Simberg said: “Residents are concerned that Barnet’s weekly bin collections will go the way of neighbouring boroughs and be transformed into fortnightly pickups.

“Together with my colleagues, I am fighting to ensure this does not become a reality. With cleanliness in mind, we are also aiming to see the return of the once popular quarterly skips scheme, a scheme that I’m sure will ease the stress at Pesach.”

Safer streets and more visible policing are also a priority for Simberg. He says: “The rise of anti-Semitism across London as whole is something that must not be tolerated, and an increase in policing across the borough, together with my strong voice within the policing community, will help to suppress this worrying increase.

“My experience with local schools in the position of governor has also shown me the positive role faith-based establishments have in our society and I understand that the pressure for

local school places is increasing.”

The Tories took two Hale seats at the last election, with Labour taking the third.

Former JFS boy Liron Velleman, currently UJS campaigns manager, is hoping to help Labour hold on. He is standing for Labour, alongside Ernest Ambe and Rachel Barker.

Velleman says: “I am proud to be standing as a Jewish candidate for the Labour Party in Barnet.

Barnet needs a Labour council for safer and cleaner streets, to build new homes and to invest in local services, and for these reasons, voters should consider Labour.

“I also have a strong track record in supporting the development of the Jewish community and fighting anti-Semitism and have consistently done so as campaigns manager at UJS, and also as youth and students officer of the Jewish Labour Movement.”

He insisted Barnet Labour has always stood alongside the Jewish community and says while the national picture has been “heartbreaking”, he predicts the track record of Barnet Labour on a local level should see a smaller impact from the ongoing rows than expected.

East Barnet has a similarly high proportion of Jewish voters, at 15 percent. The ward selected three Labour councillors in 2014. One of the current Labour councillors hoping to hold his seat is Philip Cohen.

He acknowledged there will be some perceptions that the party is soft on anti-Semitism, adding: “I have never experienced it, but I did speak at the annual conference last year in favour of the rule change for zero tolerance.

“There is no question of where we stand as a party. We need to implement the Chakrabati report as soon as possible.”

He said housing, health and the state of the roads are key issues for East Barnet, as is fighting crime, a battle he criticises the local Tory councillors for stifling by opposing extra funding for police officers.

Thurai Pavanakumar, a Conservative Friends of Israel member, is among candidates looking to unseat Labour in East Barnet.

He said he would focus on fixing potholes, affordable housing, protecting the green belt as well as getting Barnet a fairer share of police resources and looking at the cost of council outsourcing.

The Liberal Democrats are also hoping to reduce Labour’s hold in East Barnet with former Mill Hill councillor Sean Hooker.

He is used to disputes from his work at lettings agent complaints service the Property Redress Scheme and said he would also focus on council outsourcing, rising anti-social behaviour and the borough’s roads.

Addressing concerns over rising anti-Semitism, Hooker said: “The trust and support of the Jewish community is damaged by ill-informed and unjustified comments by senior politicians from all sides.”

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German Jews warned against wearing kippot The head of German Jewry has told Jews in Germany not to wear a kippah for fear of attracting anti-Semitic violence, after an Israeli man was beaten up last week.

Josef Schuster, the wellrespected president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said he would “advise against” Jews wearing kippot.

“Defiantly showing your colours would in principle be the right way to go,” he told German public radio.

“Nevertheless, I would actually advise people against openly wearing a kippah in metropolitan Germany.”

He suggested that those living in big cities could wear “a baseball cap or something else”.

The 21-year-old Israeli man who was attacked said he was a non-Jew who comes

from Haifa and was wearing a kippah “as an experiment” to prove to a friend that Berlin is not anti-Semitic.

He was reportedly beaten with a belt in the attack by a Syrian man who was filmed shouting ‘Yahudi’ (Jew in Arabic) during the assault in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the German capital.

In response to the attack, a “kippah flashmob” comprising about 40 people gathered in central Berlin on Sunday, first congregating at Alexanderplatz, then heading towards Brandenburg Gate.

“Today we were 40, next time we’ll be 100,” an organiser said on Facebook.

Jewish, interfaith and political groups – including the Berlin-based Jewish Forum for Democracy and Against Anti-Semitism – also initiated plans for a visible showing of support, with a

‘ISRAEL’S TRULY A LIGHT’ Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has paid tribute to Israel’s achievements “from humble and fragile beginnings” as he joined 1,600 people celebrating its 70th birthday in London.

Williamson (pictured) was speaking at Bnei Akiva’s joint Yom HaZikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut event at Kinloss last week.

“What Israel has achieved in a mere seven decades is nothing short of remarkable,”

he said.

“It has blossomed, becoming a powerhouse with a prosperous economy.”

He highlighted how Israeli technology was providing electricity and water to Africa and how Israeli teams respond to disasters around the globe. “Israel truly is a light unto other nations,” he said.

He pledged the government would stand with British Jewry “every step” in battling anti-Semitism.

Gavin Williamson

Hundreds attend a rally in Berlin last night.

demonstration planned for yesterday called ‘Berlin Wears a Kippah’.

Both Schuster and Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller were due to speak at the event, with Schuster stressing beforehand that if Germans refuse to stand up to anti-Semitism, “our democracy would be at risk”.

He added: “This is not only about anti-Semitism – it goes along with racism, it goes

along with xenophobia. You need a clear stop sign here.”

However, other Jewish representatives said Schuster’s position was ill-informed.

European Jewish Association president Rabbi Menachem Margolin said: “He is mistaken in the cure for this serious problem. To not wear the kippah in fear of antiSemitism actually fulfils the vision of anti-Semites.”

RAF MARKS ISRAEL’S BIRTHDAY The Royal Air Force took to the skies over Israel for her 70th birthday last week.

A Hercules C130 joined a flypast over the Sea of Galillee and off the Tel Aviv and Haifa coasts, alongside Israeli jets.

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Natalie Portman: I’m dodging Netanyahu, not Israel Natalie Portman has faced condemnation from Israeli ministers after announcing she would not attend a prize ceremony in Israel to avoid appearing to endorse Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Israel-born Oscar-winning actress, who had previously expressed her disappointment at the re-election of the prime minister, revealed she would not to accept in person the £1.4 million Genesis Prize at an event in June, which Netanyahu is to address.

The actress’ representatives initially told organisers “recent events in Israel had been extremely distressing to her and she does not feel comfortable participating in any public events” there.

But while Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev claimed she had “fallen like a ripe fruit into the hands of BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions] movement supporters”, Portman later issued a personal statement saying: “I am not part of the BDS movement and do not endorse it. Like many

Israelis and Jews around the world, I can be critical of the leadership in Israel without wanting to boycott the entire nation. I treasure my Israeli friends and family, Israeli food, books, art, cinema, and dance.

“Israel was created exactly 70 years ago as a haven for refugees from the Holocaust. But the mistreatment of those suffering from today’s atrocities is simply not in line with my Jewish values. Because I care about Israel, I must stand up against violence, corruption, inequality, and abuse of power.”

Israel has been criticised in recent weeks over confrontations on its Gaza border, during which more than 30 Palestinians have been killed.

It insists Hamas been coordinating violent actions and that some Palestinians taking part have thrown rocks and explosive devices at troops to try to infiltrate the border.

But despite her clarification, Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Infrastructure Minister, said she owed Israel an apology.

“Natalie Portman’s actions border on anti-Semitism,” he said, suggesting her actions “played into the hands of the haters of Israel and those who aspire to destroy the state of Israel”.

Claiming that the star would not boycott China or India if they were to award her a prize, even if she disagreed with their policies, he said: “Boycotting Israel has elements of antiSemitism, because other countries that are criticised are not boycotted with such ease.

“Netanyahu is the prime minister of Israel, whether you agree with him or not. To boycott a ceremony in Israel because the prime minister is supposed to take part is boycotting Israel.

“If Natalie Portman had not boycotted [it], and had given an interview in which she criticised the government, the prime minister, [that would have been] legitimate.”

BDS movement co-founder Omar Barghouti reportedly said Portman’s move was “arguably one of the strongest indicators yet of how toxic

the Israel brand has become, even in some liberal circles in Hollywood”.

In her Instagram post, Portman said she would soon announce charities she would support in Israel.

The Genesis Prize Foundation described her as “a committed social activist and a wonderful human being” but said it was “saddened she has decided not to attend the ceremony for political reasons, adding: “We fear that Ms Portman’s decision will cause our philanthropic initiative to be politicised, something we’ve worked hard to avoid”.

The prize “honours individuals who serve as an inspiration to the next generation of Jews through their outstanding professional achievement along with their commitment to Jewish values and the Jewish people”.

FRENCH FIGHT HATE More than 300 French dignitaries, celebrities and intellectuals, including ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured) and actor Gerard Depardieu, have signed a manifesto calling on the government to make the fight against anti-Semitism a national priority.

Referring to a “new anti-Semitism” marked by “Islamist radicalisation”, the letter was published in Sunday’s edition of Le Parisien.

It said: “Anti-Semitism is not a Jewish affair, it is everyone’s. When a prime minister at the National Assembly declares that France without Jews is no longer France, it [feels like] a solemn warning.”

Reflecting on a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the country over the past six months, it cites the 11

French Jews who have been killed, most latterly Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll, 85, who was stabbed to death and set on fire in her Paris flat.

It added: “Why the silence? It is because radical Islam is considered exclusively by some of the elite French parties as an expression of social revolt… because the old anti-Semitism of the extreme right is added to [that] of the radical left, which has found anti-Zionism as their alibi for transforming the executioners of Jews as victims...”

The letter also said verses of the Koran advocating violence to Jews should be removed, but Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, said the manifesto “subjected French Muslims and French Islam to an unbelievable and unfair trial”.

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The Inter-Faith Forum of Iceland, together with the Institute for Religious Studies of the University of Iceland, held a one-day discussion on the circumcision of boys, which brought together those opposing the practice in Iceland and those who want it to continue, both Jews and Muslims.

Those giving presentations, besides Arkush, included the co-sponsor of the private member’s bill currently being considered by the Icelandic

parliament’s Judicial Affairs and Education Committee, Dr Olafur Thor Gunnarsson. He is a doctor from the country’s Green Party and said that since female circumcision had been banned in Iceland in 2005, a ban on male circumcision was a matter of equal rights.

Arkush said it was the first real opportunity for supporters of brit milah to voice their arguments in a public forum in Iceland. He also met the chair of the Judicial Affairs and Education Committee, Pall Magnusson, and the Icelandic prime minister’s foreign policy adviser.

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DEPUTIES’ HISTORIC GIBRALTAR SESSION Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo addressed Sunday’s plenary session of the Board of Deputies – held, for the first time in the Board’s history, in the Grand Battery Hall on the Rock itself.

More than 100 deputies travelled to Gibraltar for the historic session, a long-held ambition of outgoing president Jonathan Arkush to stage a regional meeting of the Board in the British Overseas Territory.

There have been many Jewish representatives in the civic authorities of the Rock.

CHARITY SET FOR FAMILY FUN AT JFS Hundreds of people of all ages are set to attend a family fun day at JFS on the May Day Bank Holiday.

Grant-making charity Jewish Child’s Day, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary, said its annual jamboree at the Kenton school would include “new attractions, such as a Dare-or-Do slide, Beat the Balls, chocolate tombola and biscuit decorating”.  To book tickets, which cost £5 with onsite parking, are available by pre-booking via jcd.uk.com

Krakow marks decade of success Krakow’s Jewish community last weekend celebrated 10 years since the birth of the city’s community centre, marking a significant milestone in the life of a project opened by Prince Charles, writes Liam Hoare.

Representatives of supportive foundations and organisations, including World Jewish Relief (WJR), the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), and the Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland, joined the community and Jewish Community Centre (JCC) Krakow executive director Jonathan Ornstein at the Tempel Synagogue.

After a formal presentation, featuring speeches from dignitaries including the American ConsulGeneral in Krakow, as well as performances by JCC Krakow’s choir, members celebrated with an anniversary cake at the centre.

WJR has been involved in JCC Krakow since its inception, managing, overseeing, and funding its construction and contributing to its annual costs.

“It sounded ambitious, but there was a sense that if you build something here, you’ll have a real story,” WJR chief executive Paul Anticoti told Jewish News.

“Jewish life in Poland is historically important, not just for its tragedy but for its thousand years of Jewish life – and it shouldn’t end.”

The JCC, which Anticoni described as “the main Jewish address in Krakow,” has undoubtedly changed the community there. Visiting parties from Britain and elsewhere, that once would only have visited Auschwitz before returning home, now see JCC Krakow as, Ornstein said, an accessible way to connect to the Jewish present. More practically, perhaps, it has become a venue for Krakow’s Jewish residents

to access Jewish culture and knowledge and form friendships.

Zofia Radizikowska, who survived the Holocaust with her mother by using fake documents, is its most active member.

Speaking of Krakow’s Jewish revival among adults and children, she said: “We are the past and they are the future. I look at them with a feeling of joy because it means the Jewish community in Poland will live.

We will not give a victory to Hitler.”

In addition to fulfilling the original mission of housing a senior club for Holocaust survivors and children of the Shoah, in October, JCC Krakow opened its secular non-denominational preschool, which provides a subsidised Jewish education to 14 local children aged between one and six. It is the first pluralistic Jewish preschool to open in the city in 70 years.

“We support each other and visit one another’s families. This, for me, is [JCC Krakow’s] biggest value,” member Ewa Kodymowska said, adding: “With my kids in the preschool, I have started to study more deeply with them and I feel closer to Jewish culture.”

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Ornstein said JCC Krakow, with its 700 members, has reached maximum capacity at its existing site and needs to look for another site. “If we want to continue doing what we’re doing, we need to expand,” he said.

“We’ve still got some way to go,” Anticoni said, in terms of making JCC Krakow self-sustaining.

The centre is starting to resource itself and WJR’s annual contribution as a share of its running costs has declined; for the first three years, it contributed 100 percent of funding. Today it is less than 10 percent – although it remains a significant financial commitment.

“We’re in it for the long term,” Anticoti said. “The ambition is to achieve more in the next 10 years than the last 10 years.”

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Only actions will do Continued from page 1 zero tolerance into a reality, though there was a pledge to look into the matter.

And what message are we to take from the fact that, while recognising the BOD and JLC as the main representative bodies of British Jews, he still insists on engaging with Jewish Voice for Labour, whose representatives staged the counter-demo last month?

But the issue that most illustrates the mountain left to climb is the reticence to promote the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, along with all its accompanying, contemporary examples.

Instead, the party suggests it will select examples, along with others not included, like ‘Zio’. But anti-Semitism should not and cannot be subject to a pick and mix approach.

In the week marking 25 years since Stephen Lawrence was murdered, the Macpherson definition of racism as an act perceived as racist by the victim should be borne in mind. If anti-Semitism smears are genuine and the Board and JLC are the main representative bodies, as Corbyn reiterated this week, surely it is only reasonable to follow the definition they are promoting.

Instead, more than perhaps anything else, this reveals an ideological barrier that will rightly fuel pessimism over whether Corbyn will be able to fully follow through on his words.

So deep is the schism now after three years that only action will do.

It is indeed positive that the mainstream community will continue to be consulted about educational programmes and that there are promises to conclude the Ken Livingstone and Jackie Walker cases by the end of July.

But if the former ends up being little more than window dressing and the latter is not finalised by then and with the right conclusion, there should be no surprise if the next statement makes this one look like a ringing endorsement.

Community leaders must continue to hold Corbyn to account, but there are only so many chances he can be given before even more people join those who have already given up on him. For Corbyn, if he seriously wants to engage with the mainstream majority, he would do well to throw them a bone – and fast – or risk the voices opposed to such engagement growing louder.

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Did I miss the point of the article by Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner on why she left the Jewdas seder?

She was happy to go to the event but on seeing Jeremy Corbyn decided not to enter. No self-respecting Jew should have been attending such an event – which was not even an

excuse for a religious event/ ceremony – no matter what their motives. You are defined |by the company you keep. We know all about Corbyn and the company he keeps, but a rabbi should know better than to meet such a group.

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“I think she must be Jewish. She wears lots of sparkly jewellery, wants to run everything and all she talks about is her son!”

I was surprised byyour negative coverage of the community’s recent demonstration outside the Labour Party head office.

I was one of the 2,000 who stood in the rain and I was thoroughly glad that I did. We gained extensive national media coverage

and ratcheted up pressure on the Labour Party.

As speakers repeatedly said at the demonstration, we cannot expect Mr Corbyn to fix a problem he caused and has repeatedly avoided addressing.

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When fair comment mutates into insults As an occasional reader of Jewish News, I was appalled at the letter by Martin Stern, both at his remarks about fellow Jews and at you for allowing it to stain your pages (Jewish News, 5 April).

Jews are famous for disagreeing. I’m no exception to that rule.

But there must be limits to what is seen as acceptable.

For Mr Stern to clearly state that anyone regarded by him as “far-left” is a Nazi is completely beyond fair comment by any

Cable Street riot

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I’d like to share my poem with your readers in honour of Israel’s landmark 70th birthday: Raise a glass to 70 years.

Raise a voice in 70 cheers.

Raise your heart in prayer, to the heavenly spheres.

To the guardian of Israel, who hears.

Of the opponents, ignore their jeers and Israel’s enemies’ scornful sneers.

Among the gullible, they spread shambolic fears.

Presenting lies as facts, seeking to damage Israel’s economic gears.

Attempting to destroy the livelihood of nurses, teachers and engineers.

Hoping Israel disappears.

The time approaches when pruning hooks will be made from spears.

When brotherhood will triumph and there will be no need for tears.

Simcha Lebof By email

I have never read a Jews told: “You’re Harry Potter book, OK. You don’t have to nor have I seen a go to Auschwitz?”

Potter movie but J K Are we a race or a Rowling clarified the religion? Of course, question “Are we a we are both. race or a Our very souls are religion?” with her linked to Israel and Author J K Rowling one question. those Jews who “Were atheist Jews exempted deny this are merely useful idiots. from wearing the yellow star?” she asked.

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definition.

There are a range of views on Israel and Palestine and there are Jews who hold all of them: Judaism is not and never has been a monolith.

To pretend all “proper” Jews must hold a particular opinion is both ignorant and grossly insulting, whatever the issue.

My parents fought fascism in Cable Street; I have been a socialist all my life and I won’t have anyone telling me I’m a Nazi.

How can it be helpful to the Jewish community in all its divergence to label some of us as second-class Jews or not even Jewish at all?

In the current situation, what we need is reasoned debate, not the wholesale exclusion of unpopular views.

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Opinion

Speech Corbyn should make, but never will...

DAVID HIRSH

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could write a lovely speech for Jeremy Corbyn. It would deal with the antiSemitism issue and make it go away.

He could revitalise his whole project, refocus it on the core business of the Corbyn movement: liberating millions from unnecessary poverty and marginalisation, and releasing the creativity of the half of our country that is weighed down by the humiliating grind of making it through the week.

Such a speech could reboot Corbyn’s image: instead of a stubborn, angry, defensive old bloke, he could find again the uplifting hopefulness of the man who promised us change, an end to austerity and a new kind of national community.

But Jeremy Corbyn cannot make the speech he needs to make. It is incompatible with his own political sense of self and would exile him from his own ideological community. It would break his own inner identity. Here is the speech.

“I listened to the debate about anti-Semitism last Monday and I finally understood what

I should have understood decades ago: that those who are critical of left anti-Semitism are friends and not enemies of our project to remake society in the interests of the many and not the few.

“In this speech, I want to explain how I now understand that many things I have said and done have been wrong, and I want to put them right.

They weren’t unconnected errors, but flowed in ways I couldn’t allow myself to see, from some deep-seated political assumptions.

“Responding to Jews as though they were white oppressors, Blairites and Tories, and people who are out to get me, is part of the issue. I should’ve been able to listen to what people said and to have judged their evidence, without being put off in advance by who I thought they were. I was seriously misled by small groups of anti-Zionists, many of them Jews, speaking “as a Jew”, who seemed to be my allies, who flattered, exonerated and miseducated me.

“I take responsibility, but I’m really angry with those who schooled me in extreme positions and told me not to listen. They told me Zionism was similar to Nazism, apartheid and racism, and that supporters of Zionism should be treated

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THE ISSUE OF ANTISEMITISM IN THE LABOUR PARTY COMES TO AN END TODAY accordingly.

“They said the Jewish community was split, that it was only duplicitous Jews who said there was a problem, and that they did it dishonestly to bolster their own power.

“They said these Jews tried to use the Holocaust to whitewash their crimes against the Palestinians.

They told me these Jews were only boss Jews – chief rabbis and Boards of Deputies and Jewish newspaper barons and Jewish Tories and rich Jews – and that decent working-class Jews were their victims.

“They said Zionists were top of the heap and leaders of global capitalism. I now understand Zionists are actually people who were trying to rescue Jewish life itself from the ashes, from some of the most horrible oppression the world has ever seen.

“I hate that the Palestinians are not free.

I always did and I still do. But I can see that in my thirst to find somebody to blame, I developed a simplistic understanding of why. Not understanding that Israelis were also victims of the 20th century, I allowed my sympathy for Palestinians to become a hot anger with Israel.

“I sometimes sided with its enemies without really understanding that they were part of the problem rather than the solution. I should have understood that Raed Salah used ancient blood libels.

“When Paul Eisen turned out to be a Holocaust denier and Stephen Sizer to share conspiracy theories, I should have learnt something. I understand now, and I apologise.

“I was a fool for allowing myself to be hosted

by Hamas in Gaza. I shouldn’t have thought of Hamas and Hezbollah as being dedicated to the good of the Palestinians, to peace or justice.

“I hate war and I was worried Britain and America were preparing to invade Iran. But I understand that my impulse to engage with the anti-Semitic murderers who ruled Iran was wrong. I apologise to Iranians who are oppressed and to the Jews who warned me about their antiSemitism.

“I hereby write a cheque for £20,000, the money I was paid to present on Press TV, and donate it, half to the Iranian trade union movement and half to its Israeli counterpart.

“I understand now that the Shami Chakrabarti report into anti-Semitism in the party fell woefully short. I should have held a genuine inquiry, not one that effectively swept things under the carpet.

Having listened to the debate in the Commons, I’m happy to be able to appoint Luciana Berger, Ruth Smeeth, Louise Ellman and Joan Ryan to lead a new inquiry. This time, I want to understand how the politics of singling out Israel for particular hatred relates to the incidents of antiSemitism that everybody can recognise. I want to clean out the Labour barrel, not just to pick out some bad apples.

“Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is an issue of politics. Ken Livingstone, who says Hitler sided with Zionists in Germany, Jackie Walker, who wants people to think of Jews as chief financiers of the sugar and slave trade, and Ken Loach, who wants Labour MPs who demonstrated against anti-Semitism to be driven out of the party, are all expelled. We do not need long quasijudicial processes to judge issues of politics.

If people who have said and done partisan things change their minds, they can reapply for membership.

“From now on, I want to make it clear: I’ll side with anybody who fights antiSemitism in the party and against anyone accusing them of faking it.

“Nobody who pushes the politics of Israel-hatred and who legitimises anti-Semitism will do it in my name. They hinder the Corbyn project; they are not defenders of it.

“This issue comes to an end today. I have said I oppose anti-Semitism many times. But I had to demonstrate I understood anti-Semitism and had to change things. I also had to make a proper political accounting for my past mistakes. I hope I have begun to do that today.”

It would take all of Corbyn’s talent as a political communicator to make this speech work. He’d have to mean it, and to deliver it as if he meant it.

He can’t make the speech because his own core identity as a politician is bound up with that politics. His own political family, which he has been part of for 50 years, would cast him as an enemy.

What Corbyn actually did was tweet: “I pay tribute to MPs who spoke in yesterday’s antiSemitism debate, whose harrowing experiences remind us of the urgent need to eradicate antiSemitism from politics and society. There is no excuse for abuse of any kind, and I want to thank them for their bravery in speaking out.”

I replied: “ They spoke out against you, Jeremy. They said your Israel hatred, your defence of anti-Semites, your support for Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime and for the mural – they said you’re responsible for the environment in which this abuse occurs.

“Every time you try this trick – of condemning anti-Semitism while stubbornly refusing to understand what is being said – you make things worse.”

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Opinion

Whataboutism is a way to avoid other people’s pain LAURA MARKS

CO-FOUNDER, NISA-NASHIM

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hat do Parliamentarians including Ruth Smeeth, Luciana Berger and Baroness Ros Altman have in common with business pioneers like Facebook vice president Nicola Mendelsohn and student leaders such as incoming UJS president Hannah Rose?

What unites women from across the Jewish spectrum, bringing together trustees of the United Synagogue including vice president Leonie Lewis with Progressive rabbis Laura Janner-Klausner, Deborah Kahn-Harris and Charley Baginsky?

The answer is that, this week, these Jewish women came together to sign a letter demanding local councils facilitate the end to gendered islamophobia, abuse and attacks on Muslim women. What’s more, they did it within a few hours.

This speed of coming together was extraordinary, as was the range of the women – every age, region, Jewish

denomination and political leaning was covered.

Not one of the 50 women we asked said no. Not one questioned what we were doing.

Everyone signed up immediately.

Gendered islamophobia, a phrase being driven by prominent Muslim women, is on the rise.

According to Tell MAMA – the national project which records and measures antiMuslim incidents – visibly Muslim women are more likely to be targeted for racial abuse and attacks on the streets, than men.

This is a simply astonishing statistic and something has to be done about it.

But why are Jewish women taking action?

Why are we writing to councillors, and those standing for election, about anti-Muslim hatred when our newspapers are full of what is happening to us as Jews?

There is a huge rise in anti-Semitism at the moment and we are right to be worried.

All of us on the #EnoughIsEnough demonstration outside Parliament share the same upset, anger and fear over what is happening. And as chair of the Holocaust

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YOU CAN’T MENTION A PROBLEM WITHOUT HEARING: ‘AH YES, BUT WHAT ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE...’

Memorial Day Trust, I am deeply aware of Holocaust denial, a particularly pernicious form of anti-Semitism as it slowly eats away at people and slowly erodes belief that such an incredible time in history actually existed.

But that doesn’t mean we should ignore other problems. Whataboutism is a scourge of modern day life. You can’t mention one problem without hearing: ‘Ah yes, but what about something else.”

So often this whataboutism is a way of not listening to other peoples pains and simply focusing on our own. This letter came about because we Jewish women, regardless of

what is going on in our community, decided collectively to stand up for our Muslim sisters and say Enough – Dayenu. The letter was followed up by the Nisa-Nashim conference, which took place on Sunday and was the biggest gathering of Muslim and Jewish women in Europe.

We ate together, laughed together, sang together and even did poetry and learned self defence together.

And we also didn’t shy away from tough topics. Sessions covered Israel-Palestine, the first time this has been discussed at a Nisa-Nashim event, as well as how to have difficult conversations when our faiths diverge. Coming out of the conference it has become even more obvious to me that it is only when we hear the suffering of others, and when we accept our similarities as minorities or outsiders, that we can truly drive change.

It doesn’t diminish us to stand up for others. I’m proud that as Jewish women, we have stood side-by-side with our Muslim cousins, put Whataboutism to one side, showing we have more in common.

Natalie Portman won’t be the last to take this stand JENNI FRAZER

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olitics, we are often told, makes strange bedfellows – a dictum of which we could scarcely fail to be reminded in the wake of the Natalie Portman furore.

For those who have been asleep in their caves over the winter and are just peering out to see if it’s spring yet, the Oscar-winning actress, born Neta-Lee Herschlag in Jerusalem, left the country for America with her parents when she was four.

Portman has made a point, as her international career garnered her more fame, of saying she would not attack Israel from abroad.

And someone in the hierarchy of the Genesis Prize, often described as the Jewish Nobel awards, must have thought that giving one of this year’s prizes to Portman would have sprinkled a pretty measure of stardust, real and assumed, over the ceremony in this 70th independence year.

But – and of course, there are several “buts” in this story – Portman balked at the

last minute. Her decision last Friday not to travel to Israel to receive the $2million Genesis Prize, which she had chosen to give to women’s charities, threw the whole event into disarray, and, in fact, the June ceremony has now been cancelled.

She said she felt “uncomfortable” about going to Israel to receive the prize.

It emerged later that one of the sources of discomfort was that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to give a speech at the award ceremony, and she did not wish to appear to endorse him.

Here’s the second “but”. Portman may be many things, but stupid isn’t one of them.

In a gracious but sad statement, the Genesis Prize people made it clear that they and she had been in touch for months about the mechanics of getting the prize, and presumably she was aware that Bibi was a participant on stage.

So how disingenuous was it of Portman to wait until the week of Israel’s independence celebrations to drop her little grenade that she wasn’t going to attend?

Trying to clarify, Portman claimed: “Like many Israelis and Jews around the world, I can be critical of the leadership in

Israel without wanting to boycott the entire nation. I treasure my Israeli friends and family, Israeli food, books, art, cinema, and dance.”

In some respects I rather admire Portman for refusing to take part in an event with someone she plainly despises.

It has many echoes of the #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment in Hollywood, with which she has been closely associated.

Nevertheless, there is some regrettable fall-out from her decision.

The first is that the women’s charities she chose, which would have benefited from some of that $2million, will now not receive it, and that is a shame.

And the second is that Portman’s contro-

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versial stance has brought the usual suspects out of the asylum, with right-wing politicians such as Oren Hazan calling for the Interior Minister, Arye Deri, to revoke Portman’s Israeli citizenship, just because she had the temerity to say she didn’t like the prime minister and that the “mistreatment of those suffering from today’s atrocities is simply not in line with my Jewish values”.

It’s quite refreshing to hear a Hollywood star speaking candidly, even if one disagrees with her; and I also don’t think Portman will be the last to make such a declaration.

Israel needs to pay attention to the disaffected diaspora.

As for Portman, her choice was to reject the strange bedfellow.

HOW DISINGENUOUS WAS IT OF PORTMAN TO WAIT UNTIL THE WEEK OF ISRAEL’S INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS TO DROP HER LITTLE GRENADE?

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And be seen

Celebrating Israel’s 70th!

Email us at community@thejngroup.com Children at Toddlers Jewish Playgroup celebrated by dressing up in blue and white, daning, singing and even made a healthy Israeli salad.

Sinai students took part in Myisrael’s 70@70 challenge, which involved raising at least £70 to transform a life in Israel by taking on innovative challenges, including busking, slime stores and sponsored silences.

Pupils, staff and parents from Wohl Ilford Jewish Primary School got in the party spirit, which included pupils making a human representation of the Israeli flag.

Student Rabbi Daniela Touati, together with cheder teachers and pupils, attended a service at East London & Essex Liberal Synagogue.

Kingston & Surbiton District Synagogue members attended a candle-lighting ceremony, which was led by Rabbi Yechezkel Mandelbaum and his daughter Nechama.

Leeds University held both a ceremony and celebration barbecue. The first time Yom Ha’atzmaut was held on campus - and attracting around 450 people – chaplains also hosted an Israeli culture stand.

Residents from Nightingale House in south London marked the day by posing with a big Israeli flag.

Children from Kisharon’s Tuffkid nursery participated in activities, which included decorating their own Israeli flags and helping to make a delicious Israeli-style lunch.

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Scene & Be Seen / Community Email your story to community@thejngroup.com Children from Gan Yachad pre-school nursery in Finchley made Israeli flags.

Almost 200 members at Barnet Synagogue took part in a solemn service for Yom HaZikaron, before enjoying a Pimm’s drinks reception, where they viewed an exhibition of the past 70 years of the Barnet community, which was put together

by Barnet members Natalie and David Shaw and Donna Cohen.

Jewish Care’s Redbridge Jewish Community Centre hosted more than 300 people of all ages from the Redbridge community, for an evening of celebration.

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Children at Moriah Jewish Day School in Pinner dressed up in blue and white

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More than 180 people were at St John’s Wood Synagogue for an al fresco evening with live music and entertainment for children and adults.

Jewish Blind & Disabled tenants enjoyed a special tea at Milne Court in Woodford.

Edgware-based Mathilda Marks-Kennedy’s Reception class sang and dance.

Hertsmere Jewish Primary School had fun in the sun as pupils, dressed in blue and white, enjoyed the party atmosphere with a live DJ playing Israeli music, inflatables, arts and crafts, fairground games, hair braiding and face painting, all while learning about Israel’s history.

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London turned blue and white

Photos by Marc Morris

More than 1,000 people from across the UK and Israel celebrated Israel’s 70th at the Hive in Barnet last week. The Zionist Federation event, media partnered by Jewish News saw star performances including from X Factor duo Jack and Joel, as well as Israeli band Hadag Nahash and singer Ehud Banai. The Israeli Dance Institute and Rosh Pinah choir also entertained revellers. ZF chair Paul Charney thanked all guests and paid tribute to the organisations backing the event.

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Sights and sounds of Jerusalem

Photos by Marc Morris

Thousands of people got a taste of the world-famous Machane Yehuda market at Lee Valley Athletics Centre on Sunday and Monday. Genuine vendors from the shuk brought it to life in London, as they yelled to the crowd, inviting them to taste falafel and dried fruits, nuts and spices. British Friends of Ezer Mizion brought the iconic market to the UK for the ultimate authentic cultural experience to mark 20 years of the International Jewish Bone Marrow Registry.

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Dale and his secret heartache Behind the smiles, Francine Wolfisz reflects on the personal tragedies surrounding the late Supermarket Sweep presenter, whose father died on the day of his barmitzvah

Dale Winton hosted ITV’s Supermarket Sweep from 1993 to 2001

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ith his infectious smile, lovable charm and fashionably loud suits, Dale Winton will be fondly remembered as the TV phenomenon that invited teams to “go wild in the aisles” with novelty inflatables crammed into their trollies.

For as much as he was the household name fronting ITV’s hit gameshow, Supermarket Sweep, he was also the man who swept his way into the

nation’s hearts.

This week, tributes were paid to the Jewish prime-time presenter, who died last week aged 62.

“A lovely, warm, kind, sensitive, generous soul with a touch of naughty,” wrote Davina McCall.

“One of the kindest men you could ever meet,” lamented Jewish singer Antony Costa.

Winton seldom spoke publicly about his Jewish roots, but was more revealing in his 2002 autobiography,

Dale Winton: My Story, which has now of a very large, typically Russianlooking matriarch presiding over the been republished. kitchen at mealtimes, with all her Born in Marylebone, London, in daughters gathered around her.

May 1955, Winton was the only child “Several of these, Myra, Hazel, Jill of Gary Winner (later changed to and Rita, got married, despite the fact Winton), a Jewish furniture salesman that, for some extraordinary reason, and Sheree, a glamorous actress, who their mother was always threatening converted to Judaism. to cut them out of her will if they did!”

His mother was just 17, while his By the time Winton neared his father – described by Winton as “a bullish man” – teen years, his was in his 40s parents’ marriage when they met. had begun to Sheree was 19 unravel, but Sheree when she gave still insisted that birth to her son, Winton completed named after actor his barmitzvah.

He wrote: Dale Robertson, star of the cowboy “Having converted series Wells to Judaism herself, Fargo, of which she had made sure she was a fan.

I attended Hebrew The family classes at school lived in Ivor Dale as a young boy pictured with every Sunday and had always brought Court, Baker his parents, Gary and Sheree me up to embrace Street, before the wonderfully strong values of moving to St Margaret’s Road, Jewish family life.”

Edgware, when Winton was three.

He learned his Torah portion He fondly recalls: “We shared the drive with Mrs Marks, an old lady who phonetically and recalls the day of his barmitzvah when, tragically, his father was always complaining. Once, when – now in failing health – passed away the drive was being tarmacked, I had the very same morning. great fun jumping all over the sticky mess before it had dried and all hell Winton writes: “The idea, then, was broke loose next door. I remember that I should do my barmitzvah in the Mrs Marks emerging from the house synagogue with one other boy whom wielding a broom and quite clearly I didn’t know from a bar of soap, then at the end of her tether. ” go with my tallis, cappel and the book, Winton briefly attended Rosh and read it to Dad in the hospital.

Pinah, then Lee House School in “On the day of Hampstead, Orley Farm in Harrow, my barmitzvah, half and Aldenham School. the congregation His memoirs make mention of his present on one side Russian-Jewish paternal grandparof the synagogue ents, who had eight children and lived included my family in Linden Lea, Hampstead Garden and my father’s Suburb. He recalls his grandmother sisters, and the other as a formidable woman. half was the boy’s “My most vivid memory of her is

family. Having read my barmitzvah phonetically and got away with it, what I couldn’t understand as I stood there, very pleased with myself, looking out at the congregation, was that his half were looking joyous and my half were looking very upset – and crying.”

It was only after he left the synagogue that his mother took him aside and told him the devastating news.

Tragedy struck again when just days after he turned 21, Winton discovered his mother had died after taking an overdose.

While his personal life was blighted by setbacks, he went on to find success first as a DJ on the London club scene, before getting his big break.

He hosted Supermarket Sweep from 1993 to 2001, and moved onto primetime shows, including The National Lottery’s In It To Win It. In recent years, Winton – who revealed he was gay in 2002 – opened up about his battle with depression following a difficult break up.

Close friend Paul O’Grady fondly paid tribute to him. He said: “When I think of Dale, I think of Mr Showbiz.

Out there, giving it all, with a big smile and the tan.”

My Story

by Dale Winton is published

by Arrow Books, priced £9.99.

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The mensch who told the world about the Shoah Michael Freedland reveals the background to his biography of Holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott, who went on to represent Great Britain at the Olympics

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en Helfgott is not your usual idea of a weightlifter. He is also probably not your idea of a Holocaust survivor. If you think of the first being a tall, muscular figure, he breaks all the rules and represented his adopted Great Britain at two Olympic Games. Every day, at 87, he still practices with equipment that scares the life out of me – just to look at. The weights are almost hidden in his upstairs room, the one crammed with books and files, the number and diversity of which also made me blink.

He has never been taller than 5ft 3inches. Yet the muscles are there still. As for being a survivor, show me another one who likes Poles as much as this man born in the Polish small town of Piotrkow does. As for Germans, he says: “I am not going to blame anyone for the sins of their fathers.”

If you were to ask me why I decided to write his biography (Ben Helfgott: The Story of One of The Boys), there you have the answer. As a junior newspaper reporter (I won’t tell you when, but under no circumstances could I be called “junior”any more) I was taught to have an interest in everything that cropped up. Ben has to be a journalist’s goldplated gift.

I first met Ben in 1983.

Even then, I thought he would be a subject for a book – one very different from the usual writing I did about nostalgic show business figures, such as Al Jolson, who also became the subject of my first West End musical, or Fred Astaire, with whom I spent weeks working on both an authorised biography and a BBC radio series.

Yes, Ben Helfgott was going to be different and so was his story, which I began to pick up all those years ago on a trip to Auschwitz and Warsaw – the reason we were both there was the 40th anniversary commemoration of the Ghetto uprising.

And,yes, I had been told to be interested and try to write about anything – in those early days, even about flower shows and local weddings.

We talked, this little figure with the big history and I, during the 24 years of my BBC Radio London programme You Don’t Have To Be Jewish.

I interviewed many Holocaust survivors, but Ben stood out. Plainly, a survivor of Buchenwald and a list of other horror camps who then goes on to be an Olympic athlete after

becoming a British citizen, was going to be exceptional.

I didn’t know how exceptional.

He is nothing less than obsessed with sport – of almost any kind (except swimming, which he was never able to enjoy or accept as seriously as most other athletic achievements).

We would sit in the lounge of his home in Harrow day after day (I estimated it would all take about a year; as it turned out, multiply that by three). He spoke colourfully about a subject for which there was no colour (except the blood of the Nazis’ millions of victims). He talked about working in factories, ill treated by Poles, labouring in terrible conditions without pay, although he denies being a slave labourer, which he undoubtedly was; about seeing lines of people going to the gas chambers.

Below and right: Ben Helfgott was captain of Team GB’s weightlifting teams at the Olympics in Melbourne, 1956 and Rome, 1960

From left: A young Helfgott; with his sister, Mala Tribich; and with former Prime Minister David Cameron and Nick Clegg

The Shoah is still in his blood. The Games came and went.

He doesn’t hide how hard his life always was. He knows, too, that he has been an example to a large tranche of Jews.

I asked his three sons if he was an egoist. No,they say, that was not it at all. People needed to know and he was the one to tell them. It was almost a crusade, to use a very un-Jewish term.

He read the book’s manuscript with the proverbial magnifying glass. There were constant phone calls, querying the tiniest detail.

But that was purely to make sure there were no mistakes. Even if it took three years to achieve that.

The word for him comes naturally when you talk about a former athlete with an incredible gift of languages and a knowledge of the world.

He is, above all, a mensch.

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Book / Lifestyle KAREN POLLOCK

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“There is nothing usual about Ben Helfgott.”

The opening words of Michael Freedland’s new biography of Ben Helfgott MBE encapsulate how many people feel about this exceptional man. A family man, Olympian and Holocaust survivor, Ben’s life is an inspiration.

Through his work as a Trustee of the Holocaust Educational Trust over the last three decades, I’ve had the privilege to work closely with Ben, but I am still astounded when I think of all he has endured and all he has achieved.

Ben’s incredible life began with his childhood in Piotrkow, Poland, where he excelled in school and enjoyed racing his playmates in the town’s streets.

After the Nazi invasion, the family were forced into a crowded ghetto. Ben lost his mother Sara and sister Luisa when they were led away and murdered in the surrounding woods. He witnessed the deportation of family members to death camps and in 1944 was sent to Buchenwald. By the time Ben was liberated in 1945, he and his sister Mala were the family’s sole survivors and 90 percent of the Jews from Piotrkow had been killed. Freedland shows that what was once a thriving Jewish community had been reduced to nothing.

Ben’s father was shot on a death march and his loss shapes much of the book’s narrative.

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to help keep others alive. He was a brave leader whose death weeks before liberation remains incomprehensible to Ben. His admiration for his father helped guide his outlook on life. Ben is a loving and strong father, an illustration of what his own father instilled in him and describes his three sons as menschen – a title I’m sure they would bestow upon him too.

A valuable aspect of this work is the chance for us to read about Ben as a family man, as well as a survivor. There are some entertaining chapters on what it’s like to live with such a powerful personality, who is adored by his wife Arza.

Freedland describes how after arriving in the UK as one of “The Boys”, Ben studied at a grammar school, catching up with, and surpassing many of his classmates.

Moreover, a book about Ben wouldn’t be complete without mention of his Olympic career. He competed in the 1950 Maccabiah Games in weightlifting and won gold. I remain amazed at his being able to do so, just a few years after liberation.

Ben captained the British Olympic weightlifting team and is the only Holocaust survivor to have competed in two Olympics.

This biography highlights Ben’s contribution to Holocaust education, both as a spokesperson for survivors and as a founder and now Honorary President of the ’45 Aid Society.

Just last year, the Holocaust Educational Trust presented Ben with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ben began weightlifting by simply saying, “I can do that” and has proved this and more. His is certainly no ordinary life.

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Orthodox Judaism

SEDRA

It’s Biblical

Acharei Mot

BY RABBI NAFTALI SCHIFF

Everything you wanted to know about your favourite Torah characters, and the ones you’ve never heard of...

BY RABBI JONNY ROODYN

When faced with unimaginable personal tragedy – the death of his two sons – Aaron’s silence is deafening.

However, in this week’s sedra, Acharei Mot, which means literally, “After the Death”, Aaron the High Priest resumes his regular duties. At the time, Aaron’s response was a dignified silence, containing his personal pain and accepting this was part of a master plan whose details he was not privy to.

After this episode, God invites Aaron to keep on going though instructing him to perform the Yom Kippur service.

This was by far the most complex service in the Temple, but it was one that brought forgiveness and future to the Jewish People on an annual basis. Everything has its time: “A time to be born, a time to die. A time to plant, a time to reap.”

Aaron’s response was understandable, commendable under the circumstances, but he couldn’t remain in that place forever.

God therefore tells him it’s time to move on, to keep going.

I cannot help but relate this process of mourning and healing to the period through which we have journeyed as a people over the past 70 years, as reflected in the days of commemoration marked in the Jewish calendar at this time.

We have recently marked Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazikaron with their minutes of silence. Tragedies stun us, they force us to reflect, but our sedra teaches us that should only be a temporary holding pattern. In order to ensure a brighter Jewish future we need to emulate the words of King David, “so that my Soul may make music to You and not be silenced.”

 Naftali Schiff is the founder and CEO of Jewish Futures Trust

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Jonathan, the first heir to the throne of Israel, is a character who has always fascinated me, not least because I carry his name!

King Saul perceived the young David (he of Goliath slaying fame) as a threat and sought to employ all means at his disposal to kill him.

As the son of Saul, Jonathan could have had an easy route to power and prestige by following in his father’s footsteps and becoming his ‘yes’ man.

However Jonathan opted for a different route, one of friendship and love, rather than Machiavellian

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Jonathan gifted David his robe, tunic and sword as an act of friendship

politics. His relationship with David is described by the Sages in Pirkei Avot as being a prime example of unconditional love, one that we are all enjoined to emulate.

The Hebrew word for friend is chaver, which is derived from the root chibbur,

connection. True friendship puts the other person first, because there is a genuine connection that comes from care and compassion.

Jonathan’s friendship with David was so authentic, so sincere, that he was willing to forgo the throne and take the number two spot in favour of his beloved friend.

Their relationship was not based on anything external, it was not about what they were looking to get out of it, rather what they were looking to put in.

Perhaps this is hinted at in his name, Yonatan, or Yehonatan which means, “God has given”.

Someone who realises that all of our resources are opportunities to perfect the world will be able to step aside and allow someone else to take centre stage, because in reality, all of life is an unearned gift.

This is a lofty level to live up to, but one that can radically alter our perspective on life, for the better.

 Jonny Roodyn is educational director at Jewish Futures Trust

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Progressively Speaking

The Bible Says What?

‘He who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death’

Should prejudiced parents be allowed to pull their kids out of lessons about Islam?

RABBI MIRIAM BERGER As a rabbi I see my fair share of family broigeses, despite my own family being inevitably a model of perfection! However, the idea the Torah deems a child who disrespects their parent as a crime worthy of capital punishment is surely an over-reaction.

It’s the negative articulation of the fifth of the “10 commandments”, honour your father and mother, so that you should live a long life.

Commentators found practical reasons for this, seeing an agricultural society who relied on each generation working together for their very survival.

However I see a powerfully timeless message here. Why does respecting your parents mean you live longer, while cursing them is akin to your own death?

The answer lies in the response of the third generation. If you show your children the respect you have for your parents, you set the ex-

ample of how you anticipate being treated in old age.

You then live well, being supported in later life and living on as they embody your values long after you have died.

But if the third generation see you cursing their grandparents, you are diminished in their eyes. There is a role reversal; in your curses they see their parent behaving as a cross teenager, creating a cycle of disrespect.

He that curses his parents becomes so childlike that it is as if the third generation have lost a parental figure, as if you have died.

This verse of Torah is our warning to treat your parents as you would want your children to treat you.

Though we know that sometimes cursing is inevitable, the challenge is to parent differently, so as to protect the next generation.  Rabbi Miriam Berger is rabbi of Finchley Reform Synagogue

BY RABBI CHARLEY BAGINSKY Unusually for a question answered by a rabbi, this one can be resolved in just one word – NO. Like most, I was shocked to read reports – stemming from the Association of Teachers and Lecturers’ annual conference – that parents with prejudices, including Islamophobia, want to remove their children from certain lessons or visiting places of worship.

One such letter from a parent to the school was so full of racist language that authorities had to be informed.

This is clearly indefensible. These lessons are vital to preparing children to live in modern Britain alongside people of multiple faiths and none and the bigotry of their parents should not be able to prevent this.

However, there is debate as to whether parents should be able to pull their kids out of religious education lessons, because of their own deeply-held religious beliefs.

Menorah High School for Girls The Lady Amélie Jakobovits Campus 105 Brook Road, London NW2 7BZ Tel: 020 8208 0500 Email:admin@menorahhigh.com Headteacher: Mrs E Pearlman Menahel: Rabbi Y Levenson

Menorah High School for Girls is a successful girls’ 11-18 voluntary aided school, with a strong reputation for all-round excellence.

Our students are motivated and achieve results well above the national average.

We are looking to fill the following part-time teaching positions:

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We provide excellent support for new staff.

If you are devout, then surely putting belief in God up to academic scrutiny seems odd. If you believe your children are on the right path, should it be challenged?

Interestingly, this is a key part of Judaism. Since the beginning we have always questioned and wrestled with the ideas of God and belief.

This is why the Talmud always records the minority opinion. This is why Liberal Judaism was born 115 years ago and thrives today.

I had a Catholic grandmother, so learned about Christianity from her as a child.

Rather than making me question or leave my own Judaism, it actually gave me a fascination of faith and led me to study theology at university.

The only way we can expect people to be tolerant of our beliefs is through education, and so the same must be true the other way around.

If all we know about Islam is what we read in the press or see on social media then that gives us an entirely warped view.

Instead we should see the beauty in Islam, which in turn will help us build a more tolerant society.

By taking our children out of religious education classes with the worry they will somehow be radicalised by Islam, all we are achieving is radicalising them against Islam instead. Rabbi Charley Baginsky is Liberal Judaism’s director of strategy and partnerships

Menorah High School for Girls The Lady Amélie Jakobovits Campus 105 Brook Road, London NW2 7BZ Tel: 020 8208 0500 Email:admin@menorahhigh.com Headteacher: Mrs E Pearlman Menahel: Rabbi Y Levenson

Menorah High School for Girls is a successful girls’ 11-18 voluntary aided school, with a strong reputation for all-round excellence.

Our students are motivated and achieve results well above the national average.

We are looking to fill the following position:

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to join our expanding science department with the opportunity for the suitable candidate to take on a managerial role within the department.

The successful candidate will need to be:  an enthusiastic teacher  experienced in teaching challenging lessons  knowledgeable and passionate about their subject Both experienced and newly qualified teachers are welcome to apply.

We provide excellent support for new staff.

Please contact the school for an application pack.

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Menorah High School for Girls is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check is required for successful applicants.

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DANCING WITH LOUISE Dear Louise My daughter is quite reserved and not great at trying new things, but she absolutely loves to dance. When I mention summer camp, she gets very overwhelmed and says she’d rather stay at home. I could arrange some play dates, but can’t help thinking she’d

get more out of being at a camp with children her age. What are your thoughts – should I keep pushing her to go or just let her stay at home?

Michelle Dear Michelle A reputable summer camp is definitely a great place to go to as they are designed to engage and inspire children with fun activities.

If the organisation promises a warm team of staff, this can also really boost a child’s confidence, leaving them buzzing with excitement and looking forward to the next day.

Choosing a camp that offers dance is definitely a good place to start, and

I would recommend seeing if one of her friends can join her.

Failing that, chat with the director of the camp to talk through your concerns, as they should be used to dealing with shy children.

We get several children attending our camps on their own, and it is amazing to see how quickly they make new friends and have a great time.

Maybe you could just book for one day to see how it goes, and make a deal with your daughter that she only stays for the week if she has a good time?

Good luck and I wish you both a wonderful summer whatever you decide to do.

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With a can-do, hands-on attitude, the post holder will ensure that community fundraising is an integral and integrated part of a programme of communications, fundraising, engagement and supporter acquisition.

The successful candidate will know the Jewish community and understand what kind of events and activities people want to get involved in. You will be responsible for ensuring that all of our community activities and events are of the highest standard, delivered with immaculate care and precision.

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WIN WEST END TICKETS TO THE KING AND I Jewish News has a pair of top-price tickets to The King And I at the London Palladium up for grabs.

Described as “London’s theatrical event of 2018” by Sunday Express, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And I will be playing at London’s iconic Palladium for a strictly limited 14-week run from 21 June to 29 September. Extra matinee performances have been added, owing to phenomenal demand.

Making their West End debuts are the original Broadway stars; reprising her Tony Award-winning performance is “Broadway musical’s undisputed Queen” (The Sunday Times), Kelli O’Hara (who plays Anna) along-

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Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the modernist King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher brought to Siam to teach his many wives and children.

With one of the finest scores, including; I Whistle a Happy Tune, Getting to Know You and Shall We Dance, and featuring a company of more than 50 world-class performers, The King and I is a testament to the lavish heritage of gloriously romantic musical theatre.

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Send details of what you’ve been up to and forthcoming events to: andrews@thejngroup.com

We’re running on sunshine... and feel good!

Laura Marks was one of ten runners who have so far raised £60,000 for Chai Cancer Care

Jewish Care’s six runners – Josh Domb, James Fox, Sarah Myers, Chris Ezekiel, Lauren Waterman and Mich Preston raised £28,500 for the charity

The fittest members of the community were out in force on Sunday morning as they took part in the hottest ever London Marathon – and raised more than £250,000 for a number of charities Bernard and Sam Fromson were two of Kisharon’s six runners, who raised £32,000

Jason Friend and Darren Lipman helped Norwood raise £60,000

Radlett Reform’s Rabbi Celia Surget ran for WJR, who raised more than £30,000 Michael Jaeger & Darrel Yawitch ran for Chai Simeon Barnett ran for Anthony Nolan

Sarah Tarzi and Dan Brazil ran their first ever London Marathon. Pictured with family members, they were half of Emunah’s team, who raised in excess of £10,000

Saide, Lauren, Sabrina and Jonathan Barr raised £4,500 for North London Hospice

Matthew Levine raised nearly £3,000 for Jewish Volunteering Network

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Naomi Reynolds raised £2,500 for WIZO

Marc Cohen helped Camp Simcha raise £42,000

Ben Horowitz raised £3,552 for Shaare Zedek UK’s hospital in Jerusalem

Michael Freeman raised £2,500 for UJIA

Daniel Jacob raised £2,300 for Jewish Women’s Aid

Michele Nathan and Danielle Ellis helped WJR raise £30,000

Neil Sapler was part of the Chai Cancer Care team, which raised £60,000

Michele Lobl helped Jami raise £22,000

Daniel Bankover ran for Starlight

Sammy Kingston has raised £3,100 for Marie Curie

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